Credit: The Associated Press

In this photo taken on Sunday April 28, 2013, volunteer workers protest when they were told that the search would have to stop as they want to continue searching for victims believed to be alive and still trapped. When the Rana Plaza, a garment factory building collapsed, many of the first responders were neighborhood residents, fellow garment workers, relatives of the missing and charity workers, and they repeatedly took some of the most dangerous work.

SAVAR, Bangladesh — The heat in the rubble was sweltering. It closed in on his body like the darkness around him, making it hard to breathe. Working by the faint glow of a flashlight, he slithered through the broken concrete and spotted a beautiful young woman, her crushed arm pinned beneath a pillar. She was dying, and the only way to get her out was to amputate.